Work
Experience
DevOps Engineer
Cloud Solitaire Technologies · Ahmedabad, Gujarat
April 2025 – Present
- › Automated bare-metal Kubernetes deployment with Ansible and kubeadm, including etcd setup and node tuning.
- › Resolved etcd disk exhaustion and rolled out automated compaction across all clusters to prevent recurrence.
- › Set up HAProxy and Keepalived for bare-metal high availability with virtual IPs, validated failover on Proxmox.
- › Diagnosed a KubeAPIErrorBudgetBurn alert to failing disk hardware via smartctl, then swapped the disk live with near-zero downtime.
- › Built a Kubernetes CronJob to auto-renew API server certificates, preventing authentication failures where managed cert rotation is not available.
- › Migrated production infrastructure from on-premise to AWS EKS, added Karpenter for autoscaling, and performed cost optimization after migration.
- › Built centralized logging on EKS with OpenSearch and Fluent Bit, with separate indexes for cluster, application, and system logs.
- › Configured AlertManager routing to Microsoft Teams with severity-based alerts for infrastructure health across every cluster.
- › Built on-device software for a fleet of OpenWrt edge routers, including OTA updates with rollback, scheduled backups, DNS/SSL setup, and health alerting.
Stack
- Kubernetes & containers
- Kubernetes, Docker, kubeadm, Helm, Karpenter
- Cloud & infrastructure as code
- AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, Terraform, Ansible
- Observability
- Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Fluent Bit, OpenSearch, OpenObserve
- GitOps & CI/CD
- FluxCD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
- Storage & data
- Longhorn, MinIO, CrateDB, Patroni, PostgreSQL, Kafka
- Networking
- HAProxy, Keepalived, MetalLB, Ingress-NGINX, Gateway API, CoreDNS, VerneMQ
- Systems
- Proxmox VE, Linux, OpenWrt, Bash, Python
Background
- Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Education
- B.Tech, Computer Science